Pragmatic Knowledge Management System (PKMS)

A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System (PKMS) is basically a Semantic Knowledge Management System (SKMS) that has been supplemented to add restrictions and capabilities that turn the system from one that is semantic to a system that is pragmatic in nature.

A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System embraces the notion of the Pragmatic Web. A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System operationalizes a Semantic Knowledge Management System and grounds it in reality and truth.

A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System embraces immutable digital distributed ledgers where appropriate to enhance accountability.

A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System is a platform upon with trusted ecosystems can be built. Reliable industrial processes can be created, maintained, and managed.

A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System is a system of discrete stable units of information, think Lego bricks of information; or think the pragmatic spreadsheet. Think holon. See this example of a holon.

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A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System is part of the Pragmatic Web and is above, beyond, and dependent on the Semantic Web; a higher layer that makes financial meaning real, grounded, verifiable, and trustworthy. The Semantic Web gives you: meaning, relationships, logical consequence.  But accounting and auditing requires: truth-in-time, numeric verification, evidence, operational state, intent interpretation, multidimensional aggregation, immutability and provenance.  These are pragmatic functions, not semantic ones. A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System is the missing layer that makes semantics operational particularly in systems which have zero tolerance for error.


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